Open heart surgery at the Wellcome Institute

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Uploaded by on Jan 13, 2009

An audience of 200 people gather to watch a surgeon perform open heart surgery live

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  • I'd love to go see open heart surgery.

  • SO THEY STOPPED THE HEART? does that mean they temporarly killed him?

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  • @halo3isawsome321 I believe that the definition of "death" has changed. If the brain is still functioning, then you are still alive. A guy can be brain dead and a machine can have his heart beating but he would have no conciseness of whats happening.You could open his eyes and poke them with a needle, he won't respond. If you move his head back and forth and the eyes stay in the same place the whole time, he is brain dead. And that means he is dead.

  • i am about to graduate from medical schole but i am confused in determining my medical speciality between general surgery and cardiac surgery . i hope from you to advice me since i am really in trouple.""""""i am waiting you'''' good luck

  • @halo3isawsome321 yes they did stop the heart, but he wasn't killed because they had a machine that kept blood oxygenated and flowing to the organs.

  • @halo3isawsome321 The patient was connected to a bypass machine. This looked like a time lapse and there would be no way to do this on a live person without the use of a bypass machine to circulate oxygenated blood to the systems.

  • !!!!

  • "So, just like any piece of meat, we have to put it in the fridge." Brilliant.

  • we uh just put it in the fridge, lmao

  • @halo3isawesome321 attached the person to an external "heart". It is a machine which performs the functions of a normal heart. It is a very complex machine, but it saves many lives.

  • @halo3isawsome321 They circulate the blood with a machine, they just stopped his heart, he's very much alive.

  • I want to be a surgeon so badly.

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